Dia Center for the Arts press release 3/12/97 Cheryl Donegan: Studio Visit Studio Visit, a work for the world wide web by Cheryl Donegan, will be launched on March 20, 1997, at http://www.diacenter.org/donegan/. For Studio Visit, Donegan has put together a visually rich and playful interface constructed from imagery she has utilized in her studio practice. Film frames, TV screens, thumb prints, detergent bottles, and Newport cigarettes advertising campaign are some of the sources of the motifs she adopted and recreated for the site. Studio Visit also includes a series of images of Donegan at work in her studio over the course of a day. Opting for "low-tech" tricks, she has created an interactive experience from a combination of gif animations, frames, refreshes, mouse-overs and other devices inherent to the web. Donegans previous work has encompassed video, painting and performance, often putting an ironic and irreverent spin on conventions of art practice and art history. For example, several of her videos portray the artist executing simple, conceptual performances which result in paintings or drawings generated by various parts of her body. In Studio Visit, Donegan has transformed her experimentation with the language of painting into the medium of the web with wit and humor. Cheryl Donegan was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1962, and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and at Hunter College in New York. Her first one-person show was at the Elizabeth Koury Gallery in New York in 1993, with more recent solo exhibitions at Basilico Fine Arts in New York, Galerie Rizzo in Paris, and currently, at the Baumgartner Gallery in Washington, D.C. She has exhibited widely in group shows in the United States and Europe. One of her works is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in "Young and Restless," an exhibition of contemporary video art by young artists working in New York City. Dia Center for the Arts is a tax-exempt charitable organization. Established in 1974, the organization has become one of the largest in the United States dedicated to contemporary art and contemporary culture. In fulfilling this commitment, Dia sustains diverse programming in poetry, arts education, and critical discourse and debate via lectures and symposia. In addition, it maintains on a long-term basis works of art not easily accommodated by conventional museums. Dia serves as a conduit for realizing these projects, as intimated by the Greek word from which it takes its name. Dias long-term projects include Joseph Beuyss 7000 Oaks; Walter De Marias The Broken Kilometer, The Lightning Field, and The New York Earth Room; La Monte Young and Marian Zazeelas Dream House and The Dan Flavin Art Institute; Cy Twombly Gallery; and the Andy Warhol Museum. Current programs are supported in part by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany through the German Consulate General of New York; Axe-Houghton Foundation; The Bohen Foundation; The Brown Foundation; The Cowles Charitable Trust; The Getty Grant Program; The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; Lannan Foundation; Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc.; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Arthur Ross Foundation; The Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation; Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund at Community Funds, Inc.; AT&T; Calvin Klein, Inc.; The Chase Manhattan Bank; Hachette Filipacchi Magazines; Philip Morris Companies Inc.; Tag Heuer; Wenner Media Inc.; and the individual members of the Dia Art Council. For information about this and other Dia programs, please contact Jennie Prebor at tel: (212) 989-5566, fax: (212) 989-4055, e-mail: jennie@diacenter.org Dia Center for the Arts 542 West 22nd Street, New York, NY http://www.diacenter.org To unsubscribe from this list, please send a message to webmaster@diacenter.org with "unsubscribe press list" in the subject.